Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1887-09-09
no. 3G.
IN GEN ERAL.


IN excellent health, bodily and mental,
The Tichbornc claimant is managing"
gin mill on Chatham square, New York.
Henry Ward Beecher's residence in
Brooklyn has been let for lodging house.
Daniel Emmett, the father" of modern
negro minstrelsy, is selling milk for liv.
ing in Chicago.
Charles Heidsieck. the active head Of
the great champagne house has been visit
ing the vineyards of California.
| Stanleys last letters are of later date
than the rumors concerning his death, and
dispel all fears that misfortune has over
taken him.
American whalers in Hudson Bay kill
the animals with bomb iances charged with
| dynamite, and an attempt to prevent this
| practice will be made.
Mrs. DR.. Ellis, an American lady, is ply
sician to the queen of Corea. She has
apartments in the royal palace and receives
an annual salary of $4,000.
The Lima, Arequipa and Oroya railroad
in Peru, which runs TO the summit of the
Andes, a distance Of SO miles, has already
cost $50 900 900 and is still unfinished
Prince Bismarck, who is now at Kssen-
gen, rarely rises before ten o'clock but he
works nightly until half-past two. lie
maintains "A regular course of diet and hab-
its.
Two young electricians of Munich named
Mestern and Helidobler, have invented
sort of telephone which fixes the spoken
word on chemically prepared sheet of pa
per.
Explorer Stanley has made a tidy sum
out Of the Congo ivory trade, and will get
| moreover $4,000 from Bentley, the Lon
don publisher, for book on his present
trip.
An Arizona stockman gave his wife $12,-
900 worth Of jewelry and $1,000 for pin
money within three days after his mar
riage, whereupon the woman eloped with
an Eastern drummer
While the Empress of Austria was at
| CrOmer this summer fisherman was
drowned there Hearing of it she went to
his cottage alone, broke the news gently to
his widow and left purse of $1,000.
According to a parliamentary return
the British national debt decreased S2g,-
1919, jlS during the last financial year, and
Sl9O, ,Sl3,j ,jl3 in the last thirty years. The
present amount is f136,21S, ,6SS, or 81, 3,5S2,-
1872 ,O9j.
The coins of the German Empire may be
used also as weights pfenng piece
weighs exactly two grams so does Il gold
iivemark piece. A nickel ten pfennig and
tenmark gold piece weigh each four
grams.
An Albany man dropped his watch over
board while fishing and it rusted before he
could have it repaired He was told by
matchmaker that if he had put it in oil
when he took it out of the water, or, better
yet, into alcohol or any kind of strong liq-
uor, the watch would have required only
cleaning.
Gen. Belknap has son who some years
ago wanted to take clerkship in a Wash
ingtOn department, but his father begged
him to do anything else that was homora-
ble He hired himself to IA railway compa-
ny as brakeman and stuck to it. He has
just been appointed assistant superintend-
ent of the road
Within few years $50 total abstinence
societies have been formed in Norway with
Il membership of 13, 900, and the consump-
tion of spirits has been reduced one-half.
Petitions in favor Of prohibitory legislation
are being extensively signed. Hard drink
ing was very common vice i'll Scandna-
via few years ago,
A torpedo boat is building at Hartford,
Conn, for the French government, and
will be ready Nov. l. 1t will be 80 feet
long and "A inches in diameter, and its
speed is expected to be p miles an hour
1t is manufactured 10y Haight and Wood,
and if satisfactory the French government
will manufacture them, paying a royalty
for the right
Mr. John Jacob Astor has bought of Mr..
Cyrus W. Field one of the most beautiful
estates on the Hudson, paying about $780,
900 for the same. The mansion has IA front
] Iatra &C ii, -ft.f f.. AI, E'..ll
for the property, but afterwards expended
$50, 900 in improvements. He sells it be-
cause his daughter Mrs Lindley does not
care to live there.
1t is announced that the engagement is
broken off between Mr.. Crowley, the tai
ented, civilized chimpanzee of Central
park, and Miss Kitty O'Brieu of the forests
Of SILICA. Every day Mr.. Crowley coaxes
her up to the bars of the cage and then
dashes IA handful of sawdust into her face,
which causes her TO cry and which greatly
amuses Mr.. Crowley.
1t is said that the Streator (lll branch
of the Wabash railroad ON which train
was wrecked August 8, turning the car
with 20 passengers on its side, is not fit for
railroad Examination has shown that
the ties were too rotten to hold the spikes,
and the rall is worn down smooth or broken
] Noulllelcll pli ledNllB OllN lut HhIIoW
| part which supports the top of the rail, for
the train to run over.
The municipality of St Petersburg has
decided to plant two rows of trees in all
the streets which are more than % metres
broad There are IS such streets in the
city. The Dutch linden tree will be select
ed for the purpose, as being best adapted
to the climate of st. Petersburg and one of
the most rapidly growing trees. 1t is esti-
mated that the cost will be % rubles per
tree, or 62j, 900 rubles in all, as about 25,-
900 trees will be required.
Clarence Chapman, IA large plantation
owner in Lonoke county, Ark, was shot
dead last week Thursday morning by par
ty of black cotton -pckers, who had been
refused II demand for double pay for the
previous weeks work His wife and moth
er, who rushed to the scene, were riddled
with bullets, and several other whites who
appeared upon the scene were fired upon
and three were wounded, two fatally.
Four of the negroes were killed Arrests
were made but further trouble is feared.
A Pittsburg merchant as an advertise
ment offered a prize of $50 to the first per
son solving the following problem Take
these figure, I, ,, 3, 4, ), 6, :, 8, 0, 0, add
them together and make 100 without using
the same figure twice" There were
great many answers, but the only correct
one received was sent by a young lady, and
was as follows;